Visiting the allotment today for the first time for a week the brassica patch has been decimated by the pigeons, taking advantage of the snow weighing down the netting. The Brussel sprout tops are gone but the sprouts on the stalk are untouched! The spring cabbages have taken a serious hit though.
The carrot patch cover was droopy, but completely pigeon proof.
And the crop has benefited from some frost protection from net and snow. I dug up some monster carrots today:
Thank goodness I removed the netting from the fruit cage.
Here is an example of structural damage that can result from the weight of the snow if you don't.
The leeks don't look too hot but at least they and the parsnips don't appeal to the pigeons!
We haven’t been to the allotment for over two weeks but much of our winter vegetables had been spoiled prior to any snow. The carrots are over as we started harvesting earlier.
ReplyDeleteWe eat lots of carrots all the year around, so I went for them big time this year!
DeleteOur carrots were finished off by slugs. We'd more holes than carrots. At least our parsnips and leeks were surviving the last time we visited. After a very wet January it going to be very muddy when we do visit again!
ReplyDeleteAside from a few split ones the carrots are still coming clean so far! (If anything the main crop has less splitting than the early ones - which may be down to the conditions earlier last year)
DeleteOh! Pesky pigeons, they can’t resist a brassica can they? Apart from sprouts it seems!
DeleteAah, we’re usually living on carrots and leeks at this time of year. Such a great combo
We have no snow, but the downpour have Been damaging our garden.
ReplyDeleteWow I had no idea pigeons can do so much damage in the garden, we don't have them here. Just a couple of white doves but they are polite and don't eat veggies.
ReplyDeleteThere may have been some crows too, but mostly it's pigeons.
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